Books In The Bathroom
@arthurchappell (44998)
Preston, England
January 3, 2017 9:17am CST
A lot of my friends have a stash of light reading material in their bathrooms. This is so they, and guests can have short stories, comics or comic strip collections to leaf through while using the lavatory or a bath. Personally I tend to dislike the idea as 1/. Books and water don't mix. 2/. Guests will tend to linger in the bathroom longer to finish stories and features when others might be queuing outside the bathroom.
Now i live alone I do often leave a book in the bathroom, and in fact my book cases are just outside the bathroom door anyway. Sometimes by bathroom reading is light and at other times it is heavy. I currently have Karl Marx's capital Volume One in there. My bathroom books are never the same books I read in general daily activity or carry with me for reading on buses and trains.
Do you have / use innocent (not smutty) bathroom reading material?
Arthur Chappell
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@xFiacre (13035)
• Ireland
3 Jan 17
@arthurchappell @pgntwo The phone is much easier to read in the little room. Best things I ever read while 'at stool' as Stephen Fry once referred to it, were two little notices pinned at eye level on the lavy door of an esteemed old spinster of my acquaintance who isn't at all the sort of person one could imagine even having a potty in her house never mind using it. One read 'Are you sitting comfartably? Then we'lll begin." The other read "In the interests of economy please use both sides of the paper".
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
3 Jan 17
@xFiacre a lady with a great wicked sense of humour
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
3 Jan 17
or the endless instruction now wash your hands
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
3 Jan 17
@arthurchappell In pubs and restaurants, yes. I suspect the smartphone or personal tablet has supplanted much of the toilet-side reading matter these days... 
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
3 Jan 17
I miss having a bath tub - just a shower and sinks in my house now @Telynor
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
3 Jan 17
I used to leave the latest issue of Modern Drunkard Magazine in the bathroom.
Drunkard.com.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
3 Jan 17
@teamfreak16 i'd probably be in that as a centrefold lol
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@celticeagle (167019)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Jan 17
My BFF used to do this. She was quite the reader. Never had a problem getting into her bathroom though.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
4 Jan 17
No I don't keep reading material in my bathroom. I don't stay in there long enough.
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@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
8 Jan 17
I don't have them in the bathroom but I wouldn't dream of boarding a bus, coach or train without something to read.
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@JudyEv (340194)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Jan 17
We never have books in the bathroom. I always thought it would be nice to read in the bath but, as you say, books and water don't mix. Vince sometimes takes his book into the toilet but we have another anyway so that's not a problem.
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@Traceyjayne (1784)
• United Kingdom
7 Jan 17
I do not think it is hygienic to have books or magazines in the toilet. I know people do keep and use them there but I never would. I would never look at those kept in a friends bathroom or toilet either.
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@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
4 Jan 17
Yes. I always take a book with me just in case. I never leave it in the bathroom though because I find that a little weird. Or sometimes I just mess around on my phone while in the bathroom.
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@dramagirl26 (3259)
• Ringgold, Virginia
3 Jan 17
I don't like the idea of keeping books in the bathroom. I can understand leaving the newspaper, but I'd never leave my books in there.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
3 Jan 17
My husband's bathroom is full of catalogs - Cabels's, Northern tool, things like that.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
3 Jan 17
plus there is the whole shared germ thing, but I sometimes have one stashed for myself
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@RasmaSandra (79892)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Jan 17
My hubby has some material in there like magazines and an odd book. I never read in the bathroom. Do you remember those bathroom joke books? When I lived in the state I remember quite a few people having these joke books in their bathrooms.
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
3 Jan 17
Lol, I like the distinction there. Growing up my dad kept the bathroom well stocked. Magazines, catalogues, books of all sorts. I don't like the habit myself since it leads to spending more time in there than as is needed I think
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@mymoneycottage (47)
• United Kingdom
3 Jan 17
Having young children tends to mean any trips to the bathroom are pretty short.
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